Alex Halligey

Alex Halligey is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg's Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. Her research is concerned with theatre and performance as research tools and conceptual lenses for exploring the relationship between people and the built environment. Her monograph Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday: Place and Play in Johannesburg was published by Routledge in 2020. Alongside scholarly work, she has an ongoing practice as a theatre maker. Recent productions include a solo memoir piece called Unfathomable, directed by and co-created with Athena Mazarakis, and an ensemble work called Diving, directed by Clara Vaughan. She first worked with The Mothertongue Project in 2005, co-devising and performing in Breathing Space and since then has had an ongoing relationship with the company and its members.